WASHINGTON TIMES  Mitt Romney has shot to the top of GOP primary polls, but the potential for his third presidential bid isn't playing as well among Republican Party leaders and activists who are no longer sold on him, and say he's far from a shoo-in to win their nomination again.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER  A "major, imminent" terror attack in Belgium has been foiled. Two suspects were killed and another was taken into custody after a police raid on a terror cell in Verviers... (more)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST  Mark Steyn's appeal has spread quickly in these early-21st century years. A big hit particularly in the English-speaking world, the author-analyst-humorist is best known in the United States as a frequent substitute on "The Rush Limbaugh Show," America's most popular radio talk show... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID  Even while our media pay lip service to freedom of expression in France, the pressure to conform to the left-wing homosexual agenda continues in the U.S. and has now scored a direct hit on the Fox News Channel. Fox News personality Bret Baier has been forced to pull out of a Catholic Christian conference because of homosexual pressure.... (more)

BREITBART  A whopping 26 Republicans joined the Democrats in Congress to vote against an amendment to the DHS funding bill sponsored by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). That amendment aims to block funds for President Obama's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), largely believed to be the root cause of the border crisis last summer.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES  The terrorist attacks on France are a reminder that the broken U.S. immigration system isn't just about saving American jobs, but keeping out terrorists who are itching to make similar attacks in America. In the wake of the Paris attacks that killed 17 men and women last week, security officials have warned that the United States is a target for mayhem, too.... (more)

BREITBART  In a new initiative to promote religious pluralism, Duke University will broadcast the Muslim call to prayer every Friday on campus. The call to prayer--also known as "adhan"--will be chanted by the Duke Muslim Student Association.... (more)

ABC NEWS  The FBI today arrested an Ohio man for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol, where he hoped to set off a series of bombs aimed at lawmakers, whom he allegedly considered enemies... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN  With vengeance-seeking global jihadists on the loose here and around the world, now is a good time to ask (again): Are we ready for a nefarious terrorist attack on our train and transit lines?... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES  There's a solitary man at the financial center of the Ferguson protest movement. No, it's not victim Michael Brown or Officer Darren Wilson. It's not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, despite his ubiquitous campaign on TV and the streets.... (more)

NEWSMAX  The moderate Republicans mulling a run for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination may cancel themselves out -- with a true conservative grabbing the prize, says Brent Bozell, chairman of ForAmerica.... (more)

NEWSMAX  Add CNN's Anderson Cooper and late-night host David Letterman to the growing number of people criticizing President Barack Obama for not attending the unity rally in Paris on Sunday.... (more)

AARON KLEIN  In the aftermath of the jihadist massacres in France, much of the international focus has been on Yemen, Iraq and Syria as the planning and training centers for al-Qaida and ISIS. However, lost in the much of the Western discussion has been the central threat located in Libya, where al-Qaida groups maintain bases and where the ISIS has been growing in strength.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES  Fed up with President Obama's renewed push to close Guantanamo Bay prison, top Republican senators on Tuesday announced legislation to clamp down on his ability to empty the facility, saying he should no longer be allowed to send detainees to Yemen, home of al Qaeda's deadliest franchise, or to release any of the most serious terrorist suspects still being held.... (more)

BREITBART  On Tuesday, three Republican Senators joined three Democrats to introduce legislation that would expand the number of guest-workers for the tech industry even though there is a surplus of American high-tech workers.... (more)

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY  The Department of Labor announced that 252,000 new jobs were added to the U.S. economy in December. The Obama administration is trying to pander to voters by touting a recent decline in government unemployment figures, but the official unemployment figure is dishonest because it excludes from the count the million unemployed Americans who have given up looking for a job. You don't count as "unemployed" unless you are actively looking for a job.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES  Before there were the lost Lerner emails, the congressional hearings and the retaliatory budget cuts, there was the Albuquerque Tea Party, a group of politically minded folks in New Mexico who wanted to get together and share ideas for taking back their country. The IRS had other ideas about them.... (more)

NEWSMAX  Mitt Romney, dominating polls of potential Republican presidential candidates, is privately saying he won't take another run for the White House in 2016, pollster John Zogby said Tuesday.... (more)

CNS NEWS  Reverend Franklin Graham, son of world renowned evangelical preacher Billy Graham, said that America is increasingly embracing a "culture of death" that echoes what has occurred in Europe, and which stems from a "sinful, godless worldview that rejects Christ."... (more)

POLITICO  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took a swipe at Mitt Romney on Monday, saying that Republicans' path to the presidency doesn't cut through "the mushy middle." Cruz was asked about Romney, the GOP's 2012 nominee, by reporters following the senator's keynote address at a Heritage Foundation summit.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY  Sen. Ted Cruz had a diplomatic answer to a tough question but one that also revealed a skepticism of the Obama administration's foreign policy that could hardly run deeper. The last question for the Texas Republican after his speech at Heritage Foundation's summit on "Opportunity for all, favoritism to none" came from WND.... (more)